In an effort to enhance the experiment's already strong online presence the ALICE Outreach team developed a new website for ALICE public pages. It presents information on the experiment, the physics explored, the different detectors and systems, as well as the results that have been published. There was a lot of work to be done: written material was reorganized, photo galleries were updated, broken links were fixed.

My name is Nikita Artamonov, I am 16, and go to the international school of Geneva. I am British, Russian, and Swiss, and will go on to do physics in the IB. I did a 1 week internship, (“stage d’observation” would be a better word for it), at CERN, organized by a physicist called Despina who works at project ALICE.

Following his graduate studies in physics at Warsaw’s University of Technology, Jeremi Niedziela decided to apply for CERN PhD Student’s scheme and he was accepted last year. He is currently working on his PhD thesis on baryon correlations under the supervision of Adam Kisiel.

Michal Vajzer presented his PhD thesis in June. His thesis work has contributed to the study of hard processes in nuclear collisions with the ALICE experiment. He pursued his thesis under the supervision of the ALICE groups at the Czech Technical University and the Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR under the supervision of Professor Jaro Bielcik and Professor Jana Bielcikova.

Now that operations have been resumed at the world’s largest particle accelerator (LHC), researchers from the Institute of Space Science (ISS) are running data quality monitoring shifts at the ALICE experiment.

The Italian community working on physics with heavy ions at the LHC convened last 26-27 May in Bologna in a workshop organized by the ALICE Bologna group in the historical venue of the Accademia delle Scienze in the city centre.